MAYOR ABRAHAM LEVINE
Abraham Levine was re-elected
Mayor of Mt. Clemens, defeating
City Commissioner Charles
O'Grady, 2,067 to 1,320.
Mayor Levine carried every
precinct but one, and lost that
one by only five votes.
One of Michigan's most dis-
tinguished Jewish leaders, Mayor
Levine is a regular Sabbath and
holiday attendant at services at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Detroit, now in Southfield.
Last week he was elected a
director of the First National
Bank of Mt. Clemens, and was
re-elected a director of the
Greater Mt. Clemens YMCA.
Common Pleas Court Judges
George Kent and Joseph Pernick
were re-elected, receiving respec-
tively 143,470 and 134,106 votes.
Gerald Tuchow was defeated
in the race for State Board of
Education.
S. James Clarkson, who has
appeared at all Jewish functions
in his community and has en-
couraged religious and educa-
tional activities there, was re-
elected Mayor of Southfield.
Jacob Blaustein Is
Appointed Member of
State Dept. Body
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-
Jacob Blaustein of Baltimore
has been appointed to serve as
a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee on International Busi-
ness Problems of the Depart-
ment of State, it was announced
by Under Secretary of State
George W. Ball.
The Committee will advise
the Secretary of State and the
administrator of the Agency for
International Development on
the handling of specific busi-
ness problems confronting
American firms abroad. It will
give particular attention to the
application of the Hickenlooper
Amendment of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1962 which calls
for the termination of assistance
to countries nationalizing or ex-
propriating U.S.-owned property
unless "appropriate steps" are
taken to meet its obligations
under international law.
Samuel to Address
Yahrzeit Observance
of Hayim Greenberg
Tho Labor Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit will commem-
orate the tenth yahrzeit of . 1-ray
im Greenberg 8:30 p.m. April
17 at the Labor Zionist Insti-
tute.
Maurice Samuel, one of the
formost men of Jewish letters
in America, will speak on "The
Legacy of Hayim Greenberg."
The Habonim Choral Group will
present musical selections. Isa-
dore L. Shrodeck, chairman of
the Detroit Labor Zionist Coun-
cil, will chair the event.
The Labor Zionist movement,
comprised of the Farband, LZO;
Pioneer Women, Poale Zion,
Habonim Labor Zionist Youth
and the Hayim Greenberg He-
brew Yiddish School, is asking
all members and friends to at-
tend. The Jewish community is
invited. For tickets and infor-
mation, call DI 1-0131.
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Author of 'Past Eve and Adam's'
Evaluates Past, Tradition, Tension
Thomas Curley's novel "Past
Eve and Adam's" engages three
men (Protestant, Catholic and
Jew) in a hopeless and nearly
unmanageable riddle of their ex-
istence. They grapple with un-
pleasant sensations of hate and
indifference, where they thought
there was love. They contest
their pasts and each other with
violent emotion and little re-
ward.
About his novel (published by
Atheneum, 162 E. 28th, N.Y. 16),
Thomas Curley has written:
"The theme has to do with a
tension, the stress exerted on
modern man, particularly the
American, by two forces: 1) the
desire and belief in progress,
and, 2) the loss of tradition and
the danger of the loss of the past.
" 'Tradition' and the 'past' are
not the same. Tradition is, or
was, the thread which guided us
safely through the vast realms
of the past, but this thread also
confined man to a predetermined
(traditional) aspect of the past.
Without tradition, without a tra-
dition, the past itself is endang-
ered, and men without a past
cease, in a sense, to be fully
human, for they lack the dimen-
sion of depth which only mem-
ory can provide.
"The more man 'progresses'
therefore, the more shallow he
seems to become. In his effort
to grow he diminishes.
"Symbols and emblems lose
their power of significance, and,
eventually, their emotional force.
That is why I chose 'Past Eve
and Adam's' for a title. For me,
Joyce's phrase suggests not only
endless circularity, but a plunge
beyond the myth that was for
so long central—to the Western
world.
When Adam delved and
Eve span
Who was then the
gentleman?
"The myth implied a radical
equality among all men; it pro-
vided over the course of cen-
turies, an instinctual security.
Our brotherhood implied one fa-
ther. In the revolutionary (Amer-
ican) effort to establish a 'novo
ordo seclorum,' a new order of
the world, this integrating myth
has been lost. In one sense, to
your favorite style of
use a popular phrase, the past
has become the new frontier.
"It did not occur to me until
I was almost finished with the
book, but my three main male
characters are a Protestant, a
Catholic and a Jew. Of the three,
only the Jew, Sid Stein, retains
any instinctual security. His in-
stinctive dislike of non-objective
painting is, for me, evidence of
his desire not to lose tradition.
Weems, the Protestant, tries to
banish the past because it is pain-
ful and humiliating—he succeeds
and finds himself smaller. Fay,
the least educated, seeks the lost
past, finds it, and learns that he
is still lost, that the past is Pro-
tean—and promiscuous, the play-
thing of the present.
"If there is any conclusion, it
is that the tension I mentioned
cannot be resolved."
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Frisco Federation
Gets $1 Million in Gifts
REGULAR
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)-
Advance gifts to the 1963 Jew-
ish Federation campaign of
1963, which is seeking $2,500,-
000, topped the $900,000 mark,
it was reported at the drive
kickoff dinner. The $2,500,000
goal is about 30 per cent more
than was raised in 1962, accord-
ing to Marshal H. Kuhn and
John H. Steinhart, co-chairmen.
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Histadruth Ivrith
Honors Parents of
Distinguished Sons
A group of parents of distin-
guished sons were honored Sun-
day for contributing to the pres-
ervation and growth of Hebrew
culture by educating their fam-
ilies in the highest Hebraic tra-
ditions at the 47th annual ban-
quet of Histadruth Ivrith, the
Hebrew language and culture
association, in Hotel Americana,
New York.
Among the parents were Sam-
uel Bernstein, father of Leon-
ard Bernstein conductor of the
New York Philharmonic Orches-
tra; Joseph Bikel, father of
Theodore Bikel, musical artist;
Albert L. Berkowitz, father of
Rabbi William Berkowitz of
Cong. Bnai Jeshurun, New York,
and of Rabbi Martin Berkowitz
of Cong. Adath Israel, Philadel-
phia, and Mrs. Rae Kapelman,
mother of Civil Court Justice
William Kapelman.
California School
Violates Prayer Rule
DUBLIN, Calif., (JTA) — A
teacher in a public school here
was ordered by the Dublin
Board of Education to halt a
practice of starting her daily
classes with the Lord's Prayer.
This was believed to be the last
public school in California with
this practice.
The order was issued to Mrs.
Ellin Nevins after the board
received an opinion from the
Alemada county district attor-
ney's office that such recitation
in school violated the state code
and the U.S. Constitution.
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23 - THE D ETROI T JEWISH NEWS — Friday, April 5, 1963
Levine Re-Elected
Mt. Clemens Mayor